Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these ...

Calculations by astronomers and physicists suggest that the universe formed around 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, an unfathomable number of stars and planets have come into existence.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE and NCCR PlanetS, has discovered a super-Earth, referred to as HD ...